Poaches

California-based Lucid Motors (LCID) is expanding globally. With a new European boss who brings extensive experience from Polestar, Maserati, and Audi, Lucid aims to build its brand in new markets. Lucid hires former Polestar exec to expand in Europe Lucid hired Alexander Lutz, who spent the past four and a half years with Polestar, as its new managing director for Europe. Lutz started the first of the year. Before Polestar, Lutz worked for Audi before joining Maserati for four years. With…

Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware devices running on OpenAI’s cutting-edge software.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewTan will join the ranks of Jony Ive, the legendary Apple designer that Steve Jobs called his…

Tesla has hired a very experienced manufacturing executive from Stellantis to lead quality operations at Gigafactory Texas. As we previously reported, Tesla brought Tom Zhu, the executive in charge of Tesla’s operations in China, to the US to oversee all manufacturing and sale operations in North America last year. The executive has since been boosting Tesla’s manufacturing leadership with several new hires. We reported that Tesla hired Eli Lilly manufacturing executive Michael Hildebrand to…

Richard Dickson, president and chief operating officer at the toymaker, is taking over as Gap’s next chief executive. Richard Dickson, president and chief operating officer at the toymaker, is taking over as Gap’s next chief executive. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to…

Tesla has poached a battery manufacturing expert to lead its dry electrode, which has been identified as one of the main bottlenecks for Tesla’s 4680 battery cell. When Tesla unveiled its 4680 battery cell at its Battery Day in 2020, the automaker highlighted several advancements that can significantly slash battery costs when bottled together. One of those main advancements was a dry electrode coating technology that Tesla obtained by acquiring Maxwell. This powder-into-film process is…

According to Korea Herald, Samsung has just hired a high-ranking top TSMC employee, namely Lin Jun-cheng. He worked for the Taiwanese company for about 19 years and before that, he was at Micron Technology. That's some serious background. Lin Jun-cheng will head Samsung's Advanced Packaging Team, part of the Device Solutions division, which is an essential part of developing chips. He worked on the development of 3D packaging technology for TSMC, so this might be a big hit for the Korean tech giant. Although quite…

HONG KONG— Roblox Corp. RBLX -2.19% has poached a Meta Platforms Inc. executive for the newly created role of Asia-Pacific head of public policy, as the videogame company chases growth in the region.Steve Park, the longtime government relations head for South Korea and Japan at Facebook’s META -0.11% parent company, will join Roblox next week, a spokeswoman for the San Mateo, Calif.-based company said. Mr. Park has been…

Apple has just grabbed a huge win in the Apple Car saga.As reported by Bloomberg, the company has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, a 20-year veteran of Lamborghini, to help lead the design of its autonomous electric vehicle. According to the report, Taraborrelli was poached from the Italian automaker and was previously working as the company's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics.The move is a major one for Apple, which has been quietly working on the Apple Car under the code name of Project Titan for years now. While the…

Apple is continuing to press ahead with its efforts to build a fully self-driving electric car, despite a number of personnel changes and strategy shifts over the years. Now, a new report from Bloomberg indicates that Apple has hired Desi Ujkashevic, a 31-year Ford veteran, to help it ramp up efforts on the Apple Car project. Apple Car project expands with Ford exec Notably, Apple’s hiring of Ujkashevic comes after Ford poached Doug Field from Apple last year. Tesla originally hired Field away from Apple in 2013…

Nvidia has scored another high-profile hire for its Arm CPU push - this time, from under Intel's nose. Rafi Marom, Intel's Design Manager at its Israel facilities and one of the managers behind the successful Tiger Lake architecture, jumped ship to Nvidia's facility based within the country. His new role as Senior CPU Director casts him as one of the premier architects for the company's future Arm products.After its multi-billion-dollar push for acquiring the U.K.-based company failed, Nvidia is seemingly doubling down…